[antiwar-van] CANADA, US, AND ISRAEL ARE THE AXIS OF EVIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

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Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO)
www.mawovancouver.org | info at mawovancouver.org
Ph. 604-322-1764 | Fax. 604-322-1763 

August 3, 2006
NEWS ITEM: For Immediate Release

Press Contacts: 
Shannon Bundock, MAWO Co-Chair: 778-891-1470

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Emergency Anti-War Picket Action 
responding to Canada’s deadliest day in Afghanistan and 
Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza

THURSDAY AUGUST 3
12:30PM-1:30PM
Canada Forces Recruitment Centre
(1070 W. Georgia St, Downtown Vancouver BC)

Organized by Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO)
www.mawovancouver.org 
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STATEMENT:
  
Four soldiers killed in Canada’s deadliest day in Afghanistan
while mass bombing of Beirut resumes – and in Vancouver Anti-War
picketers return to the Canada Forces Recruitment Centre:
CANADA, US, AND ISRAEL ARE THE AXIS OF EVIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

Before daybreak on the morning of August 3rd, Canadian Cpl.
Christopher Jonathan Reid died when a roadside bomb struck his
LAV-3 while carrying out his troops’ search and destroy mission
in Southern Afghanistan. Just hours later, three more yet
unnamed Canadian soldiers were killed in a rocket attack on the
outskirts of Kandahar City. Additional bombing attacks left at
least four more Canadian soldiers wounded. These deaths bring
Canada’s death toll in Afghanistan to 25, of which, 17 have died
in the last six months, since Canada’s deployment of 2,000
troops to Southern Afghanistan was carried out. 

Also on August 3rd, just one day after Israel began a massive
10,000 ground-troop invasion of Lebanon, Israel resumed its
bombing of Beirut. And at the same time, Israel deployed 50
tanks and armoured bulldozers into Gaza, leveling homes and
vital civilian infrastructure while fighter planes fired
missiles at ‘targets’ that had not yet been destroyed by
targeted Israeli bombs.

“The savage war drive of Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay in
Afghanistan plus their unconditional support of Israel’s brutal
war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza has earned the a place for the
government of Canada along with the US and Israel as the ‘Axis
of Evil’ in the Middle East,” said MAWO Co-Chair Shannon
Bundock.  

She continued, “Stephen Harper claims that Canada is waging a
‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan and supporting Israel’s ‘war on
terror’ in Lebanon and Gaza. In Afghanistan this ‘war on terror’
means air strikes, house raids, checkpoints, arrests, murder,
and torture. The results of this ‘war on terror’ are the deaths
of unknown and untold numbers of innocent Afghan people, and the
unnecessary deaths of four Canadian soldiers today alone. That
makes almost three Canadian deaths a month since Canada’s
Kandahar combat mission began just six months ago.” 

On August 1st, in response to a world uproar against the Israeli
bombing in Qana, Peter MacKay, the Foreign Affairs Minister of
Canada, called Hezbollah a “cancer” and echoed the US and
Israel’s ‘ceasefire’ conditions as the destruction of Hezbollah
for a ‘lasting peace.’ 

Bundock continued, “In Lebanon this ‘war on terror’ means that
more than 900 innocent people have been killed, 3,000 injured,
and over 700,000 Lebanese have been made refugees  since the
Israeli invasion began on July 12th. In Gaza, Israel’s ‘war on
terror’ means that more than 119 people have been killed since
the Israeli invasion of Gaza began a month ago. This is what
terrorism looks like.”

Bundock concluded, “We can name the source of the terrorism that
is costing thousands of lives and such tremendous human
suffering in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Gaza – the US, Israel and
the government of Canada make up the axis of evil in the Middle
East. For an end to terrorism and a ‘lasting peace’ in the
Middle East, Canada must get out of Afghanistan, Israel must get
out of Lebanon and Palestine, and the US must get out of Iraq.”

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